Moscow, Nov 3 (RIA Novosti) Joseph Alliluyev, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s grandson and son of his daughter Svetlana, has died in Moscow.

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Microsoft founder Bill Gates will launch a major initiative for India’s public healthcare here Wednesday with a special focus on polio eradication, said officials at his philanthropic foundation.

Tornoto, Nov 3 (IANS) Popular media coverage of infectious diseases make them seem worse than they are, according to a new Canadian study.

Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) The rates of flu vaccination for adolescents who suffer from asthma and other illnesses are still far too low, according to a recent study.

Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) A step as simple as administering vaccine two weeks before it is scheduled protects infants from a common, highly contagious and even deadly disease known as pertussis.

Kolkata, Nov 3 (IANS) One of the policemen injured in Sunday’s landmine blast by suspected Maoists that targeted West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and central steel minister Ram Vilas Paswan is in a critical condition, doctors said here Monday.

Kolkata, Nov 3 (IANS) One of the policemen injured in Sunday’s landmine blast by suspected Maoists that targeted West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and central steel minister Ram Vilas Paswan is in a critical condition, doctors said here Monday.

Washington, Nov 3 (IANS) Scientists have found out how disease-causing bacteria evade the host’s immune system, even surviving and growing within the very cells meant to destroy them. This discovery may open the way to new treatments and vaccines for tuberculosis (TB) and certain other chronic bacterial and parasitic infections.